Re: Difficulty saving a video

2011-07-24 Thread Trevor Campbell Davis
Dear all Apologies if this has been covered, but if anyone can give me a quick pointer, it would be really helpful. I routinely download BBC TV programmes for later viewing, usually in the highest resolution available, without any difficulty. I normally do so from the command prompt in Wi

Re: Difficulty saving a video

2011-07-20 Thread Sam Kuper
On 18 July 2011 23:24, Sam Kuper wrote: > I'll try out your patched version asap and report back when I get a chance. Worked perfectly. Thank you! Sam ___ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/list

Re: Difficulty saving a video

2011-07-18 Thread Sam Kuper
On 18 July 2011 19:19, dinkypumpkin wrote: > On 17/07/2011 21:57, Sam Kuper wrote: >> >> ERROR: Failed to record 'Thermal imagery in the desert - - >> (http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/thermal-imagery-in-the-desert/3204.html)' >> ... >> > Clearly this didn't work, despite my having provided

Re: Difficulty saving a video

2011-07-18 Thread dinkypumpkin
On 17/07/2011 21:57, Sam Kuper wrote: ERROR: Failed to record 'Thermal imagery in the desert - - (http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/thermal-imagery-in-the-desert/3204.html)' ... > Clearly this didn't work, despite my having provided a long set of fallback modes. I'm unsure how to proceed, a

Re: Difficulty saving a video

2011-07-18 Thread Nigel Taylor
On 07/18/11 16:03, Sam Kuper wrote: On 18 July 2011 11:14, Nigel Taylor wrote: The auth part depends on the IP address, so you can't cut and paste. OK, as I suspected. Thanks for confirming. The auth part is also only valid for a certain period of time. rtmpsvr requires you to directs th

Re: Difficulty saving a video

2011-07-18 Thread Sam Kuper
On 18 July 2011 16:03, Sam Kuper wrote: >>> If you compare, >>> get_iplayer is not passing the correct parameters to rtmpdump, which why you >>> get the access error. >> >> Aha! Thank you for pointing this out. Is this a bug in get_iplayer? If >> so, ought it to be reported somewhere, or is this m

Re: Difficulty saving a video

2011-07-18 Thread Sam Kuper
On 18 July 2011 11:14, Nigel Taylor wrote: > The auth part depends on the IP address, so you can't cut and paste. OK, as I suspected. Thanks for confirming. > rtmpsvr requires you to directs the traffic to it. Aha! I hadn't clocked that. Thank you. > On Debian (Linux) > I have a user rtmp, und

Re: Difficulty saving a video

2011-07-18 Thread Nigel Taylor
Hi, The auth part depends on the IP address, so you can't cut and paste. rtmpsvr requires you to directs the traffic to it. On Debian (Linux) I have a user rtmp, under which I run rtmpsrv. The traffic to port 1935 is redirected using iptables - iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 1935 -

Re: Difficulty saving a video

2011-07-17 Thread Sam Kuper
On 18 July 2011 02:33, Nigel Taylor wrote: > You can also use rtmpsrv (supplied with rtmpdump), this then captures > browser requests and uses them as parameters for rtmpdump. Nifty! Or at least, it would be if rtmpsrv worked on my Mac. As it is, it just outputs: RTMP Server 2.3 (c) 2010 Andrej

Re: Difficulty saving a video

2011-07-17 Thread Sam Kuper
On 18 July 2011 00:34, Andy Bircumshaw wrote: > I would attempt to get this URL using: >    get_iplayer --url > "http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/thermal-imagery-in-the-desert/3204.html"; > > No harm in showing "--type tv" or "--modes=this,that,other", but keep prefix > paths & stuff out

Re: Difficulty saving a video

2011-07-17 Thread Nigel Taylor
On 07/18/11 00:34, Andy Bircumshaw wrote: On 17 July 2011, at 22:17, Sam Kuper wrote: Third attempt, still unsuccessful: ./get_iplayer "tv:http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/thermal-imagery-in-the-desert/3204.html"; --fileprefix="bbc_clip" --modes=flashnormal1,rtspnormal1,subtitles1 --

Re: Difficulty saving a video

2011-07-17 Thread Andy Bircumshaw
On 17 July 2011, at 22:17, Sam Kuper wrote: > Third attempt, still unsuccessful: > > > ./get_iplayer > "tv:http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/thermal-imagery-in-the-desert/3204.html"; > --fileprefix="bbc_clip" --modes=flashnormal1,rtspnormal1,subtitles1 > --verbose I would attempt to get

Re: Difficulty saving a video

2011-07-17 Thread Sam Kuper
On 17 July 2011 22:30, Rob MacGregor wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 22:11, Sam Kuper wrote: >> Ah, I've just found the --verbose option. Please see the corresponding >> output, which is at the end of this email. It looks like the >> unspecified error being reported previously was an "Access den

Re: Difficulty saving a video

2011-07-17 Thread Rob MacGregor
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 22:11, Sam Kuper wrote: > Ah, I've just found the --verbose option. Please see the corresponding > output, which is at the end of this email. It looks like the > unspecified error being reported previously was an "Access denied" > error, which seems a bit odd given that I c

Re: Difficulty saving a video

2011-07-17 Thread Sam Kuper
Third attempt, still unsuccessful: ./get_iplayer "tv:http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/thermal-imagery-in-the-desert/3204.html"; --fileprefix="bbc_clip" --modes=flashnormal1,rtspnormal1,subtitles1 --verbose Yields the following: get_iplayer v2.79, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis T

Re: Difficulty saving a video

2011-07-17 Thread Sam Kuper
Ah, I've just found the --verbose option. Please see the corresponding output, which is at the end of this email. It looks like the unspecified error being reported previously was an "Access denied" error, which seems a bit odd given that I can watch the video in a browser on the same Mac (i.e. I c

Difficulty saving a video

2011-07-17 Thread Sam Kuper
Dear all, I'm new to get_iplayer and some of its dependencies, so please forgive me if I'm missing something basic. On OS X 10.6.8, after installing ffmpeg, RTMPDump and get_iplayer, I entered the following in the Terminal application, in the get_iplayer directory: ./get_iplayer "tv:http://www